Groups | Search | Server Info | Login | Register

Groups > comp.mail.pine > #3160

Re: multiple copies of the same email

Show all headers | View raw

On 2025-06-17 13:10, Helmut Richter wrote:
> It happens very often that I have multiple copies of the same email in the
> same folder. The most frequent reason is that one copy ist sent directly to
> me and another one (or more) by forward from other recipients. Another reason
> can be that the email has manually been saved in a folder more than once
> (then all other copies should be in "deleted" state but sometimes deleted
> emails are ressurected for various reasons).
> 
> Whatever the reason, I’d like to know a simple way to discover that several
> emails in the same folder have the same Msg-Id, and then to delete all but
> one of them, preferably keeping the shortest one (= the one with the fewest
> forwards). I do not want the deletion to be fully automatic because there are
> situations where I want to see which copies have reached me.
> 
> My current solution is to search for the "Return-Path"-Header that
> appears most often in duplicated emails. This covers many cases but is
> a bit clumsy.

Not in Alpine but Thunderbird has an addon that finds duplicate emails.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

Back to comp.mail.pine | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar

Thread

multiple copies of the same email Helmut Richter <hr.usenet@email.de> - 2025-06-17 13:10 +0200
  Re: multiple copies of the same email "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-17 19:09 +0200
  Re: multiple copies of the same email LC's No-Spam Newsreading account <nospam@home.invalid> - 2025-06-24 23:11 +0200

csiph-web